Fifty Years at the US Environmental Protection Agency

A. James Barnes is Dean Emeritus and Professor at the Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University where for 30 years he has taught environmental law in the O'Neill School and in the Maurer School of Law. From 1970 -1973 he served as Assistant and Chief of Staff to EPA's first Administrator, William Ruckelshaus, and later served as EPA General Counsel (1983-1985) and Deputy Administrator (1985-1988). John D. Grahamis Dean Emeritus and Professor at the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He is a specialist in risk analysis who worked closely with EPA during his time as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the George W. Bush administration from 2001-2006. He was the founding director of the Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health (1985-2001).David M. Koniskyis Professor at the Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University where his research and teaching focus on environmental politics and policy, federalism, public opinion, and environmental justice.

• ContentsPreface viiEditors’ Note xi1 The Establishment of EPA 1A. James Barnes2 Clean Air: Regulation of Stationary Sources 41William F. Pedersen3 Clean Air: Controls on Cars, Trucks, and Fuels 83John D. Graham4 EPA and Climate Change 121Jody Freeman5 EPA and the Clean Water Act 167Jonathan Z. Cannon6 Safe Drinking Water 211James Salzman7 Addressing Land Disposal of Wastes 241Marcia Williams8 Cleanup of Uncontrolled Waste Sites 281Gene Lucero and Marcia Williams9 Regulation of Chemicals, Pesticides, and GeneticallyEngineered Organisms 309John D. Graham and Penelope Fenner-Crisp20_0430_Barnes.indb 5 12/2/20 9:52 AMvi Contents10 Environmental Science at EPA: Providing Good Sciencefor Relevant Policy 351Terry F. Yosie and Bernard D. Goldstein11 How Economics Has Contributed to EPA 393Richard D. Morgenstern12 Politics and EPA 443David M. Konisky and Megan Mullin13 Agenda Setting at EPA 485John D. Graham and Jonathan B. Wiener14 EPA at Fifty: A Look Back and Forward 523David M. KoniskyAppendix: List of Administrators of US EnvironmentalProtection Agency 569Bibliography 571Index 621About the Authors 653

A fabulous book. Fifty Years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency offers even more than the definitive history of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It provides an immensely valuable account of pollution control law in the United States during the past five decades. The book is a deserved tribute to all that EPA has accomplished and clear-eyed warning of how much the nation would lose if current efforts to undermine the agency were successful.